What Welsh writer scooped the story of the successful first ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953?

  1. William Fontaine
  2. Tim Bucktew
  3. James Morris
  4. G.K. Chesterton

Answer:
3. James Morris

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Celebrated writer Jan Morris used to be James Morris before undergoing a gender change in the early 1970s . Travelers’ Tales has re-issued her very first book as part of our Classics series; after a long and illustrious writing career, her self-professed last book was published recently, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere.